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Non $$\Sigma _ n$$ axiomatizable almost strongly minimal theories. (English) Zbl 0698.03021
A theory is almost strongly minimal if in every of its models, every element is in the algebraic closure of a strongly minimal set. Hodges and MacIntyre conjectured in 1970 that there is a natural number n for which every $$\aleph_ 0$$-categorical and almost strongly minimal theory is $$\Sigma_ n$$-axiomatizable. G. Ahlbrandt and J. T. Baldwin proved recently [Arch. Math. Logic 27, No.1, 1-4 (1988; Zbl 0637.03022)] that every theory satisfying the above assumption of the Hodges-MacIntyre conjecture is $$\Sigma_ n$$-axiomatizable for some n.
In the paper under review, it is shown that for each n there is an $$\aleph_ 0$$-categorical almost strongly minimal theory which is not $$\Sigma_ n$$-axiomatizable. More precisely, the author proves the following: Theorem. For every n there is an almost strongly minimal $$\aleph_ 0$$-categorical theory T with models M, N of T such that N is a $$\Sigma_ n$$-elementary but not $$\Sigma_{n+1}$$-elementary extension of M. The rest follows from a theorem of C. C. Chang [J. Symb. Logic 32, 61-74 (1967; Zbl 0161.005)].
Reviewer: P.Štěpánek

##### MSC:
 03C35 Categoricity and completeness of theories 03C65 Models of other mathematical theories
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